Quarantine Relationship (2020) - full transcript
(mystical music)
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
(tranquil music)
- Hello.
I'm Chief Williams
and I'm here to help the city
of Wilmington, North Carolina
with an initiative we're
calling Destroy 19.
And what this is is
that we are taking
our own responsibility for
stopping the COVID virus
in our community.
In order to do that, we're
going to have to take
some extreme measures.
You will not be able to leave
your home for any reason
while this is going on.
Emergency crews are
standing by to help you
with anything you could
possibly need during this time.
Also, we don't know how
long this is gonna last
so the county has
informed me that utilities
will run free of charge
until this is over.
And one last thing.
I implore you do
not ingest or inject
over the counter disinfectant
into your bodies.
(tranquil music)
(Diedre crying)
- And if you snitch,
I'll kill you.
(somber music)
(mellow hip hop music)
(birds chirping)
(ominous music)
(somber music)
- It's gonna be okay.
We got this.
- How are we supposed
to live like this?
- [Rashida] We already
got rid of the thing.
- Well none of this
is over until it
is gone and forgotten about.
- I could take care of that.
- You better.
This is all your fault.
- It may be all my fault,
but you're reaping
all the benefits.
(mellow R&B music)
* Insincere
* Don't interfere
* That's what you said
* Ooh
* Hold it in your heart
* Like some souvenir
* And don't volunteer
* Said what I said
* Don't want a life I
live gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* You see them come
you see them go *
* And you see what you
see going up going down *
* Like the cyclone
* Oh carousel
- Deandre.
- Diedre.
My name is Diedre.
- Deandre.
Grow some balls.
- [Diedre] Maybe you
should grow a heart.
(Rashida laughs)
- That's why I like you.
You're crazy just like me.
(laughs)
Oh, man.
Mmm.
I'm hungry.
Want something?
- No.
I don't.
- [Rashida] You don't
want nothing to eat?
- [Diedre] No.
(mellow hip hop music)
Elder Jeaves?
- [Elder Jeaves
On Phone] Who dis?
- [Diedre] It's me, Diedre.
- [Elder Jeaves On Phone]
How can I help you?
- I have a situation
I need help with.
I really can't explain
over the phone.
(mellow hip hop music)
- Deandre?
Your food getting cold.
- [Elder Jeaves] Well how to
you expect me to help you?
- Look, I don't know but
I'm in serious trouble.
- [Elder Jeaves] I can't help.
Members of the church
won't send elders.
- Idiot, this is life or death.
- [Elder Jeaves] Hold on.
Is this Jeremy?
Boy, you can't fool me.
I know that voice anywhere.
- Yeah, yeah, it's me, Jeremy.
Can you help me?
- [Elder Jeaves] Help?
You owe me $40.
I need my money.
You told me you'd pay
me over a month ago.
Is that why you
ain't been to church?
(mellow hip hop music)
- I'm gonna have to eat your
food if you took any longer.
- [Diedre] How did I get here?
- Hmm?
Love.
- Love.
- L-O-V-E, love me.
L-O-V-E, love me.
- Not right now, aight?
- What?
It's always now.
Like--
- Yo stop.
- What's wrong with you?
- I need to be
calling my pastor.
(Rashida laughs)
- Huh, say that again, now.
- What's so funny?
I need to call my pastor.
He's my friend.
(Rashida laughs)
- Wait a minute.
So,
you go to church and
he's your friend,
nobody calls you
for this whole time.
'Cause I'm just trying
to figure out something.
That's your people
in the church, right?
But the only person
I've seen here is me.
So who did God send?
Me or them?
- Rashida, stop playing, aight?
- Me or them?
- Rashida, stop.
- Who did he send?
Me or them?
- Look, you, aight?
You.
- Oh.
(laughs)
I thought so.
- Look, we can't
go nowhere, aight?
- What do you mean
I can't go nowhere?
- We're on a statewide
lockdown due to Corona.
- I don't care about that.
- Have you not been
paying attention?
We were on phase one,
we're on phase two now,
soon to be three, four.
They're not playing
around with this.
- Wow.
Yo, if that's the case,
then what we gonna do with it?
- You almost shot him.
- Yeah, I'm out here patrolling,
making sure that
everybody's adhering
to this quarantine order.
They act like we
didn't even have
a quarantine order in effect.
Making sure they're
wearing masks
like you're supposed to.
Yeah, I hear you.
I hear you.
But we're not just gonna
rush in there and arrest her
until we get concrete evidence?
(chatter on police radio)
It's too risky.
While the quarantine
is going on,
they can fix these roads,
this is ridiculous.
(chatter on police radio)
Look, we've been after this
family for a long, long time.
Marcus is in there right now,
in the house with Rashida
to get the evidence
that we need.
- [Officer On Radio]
Well this is what
I think we need to do.
We need to go ahead
and get the SWAT team--
- Look, when Marcus
gets the evidence,
we can send Rashida--
why am I even telling you this?
I'm the police chief,
you do what I say.
You follow my rules or you
find yourself a new job.
Fix these roads while this
quarantine is going on.
I need to find a new job.
Not like this one.
(dramatic music)
- [Tia] Somebody help me.
Help me please.
Help me.
She shot me.
- Who shot you?
- [Tia] She shot me.
Rashida.
She shot me.
- I need help.
Officer down.
It's Tia, Marcus's wife.
(mellow music)
- You know,
as long as it is in the room,
we gonna have a problem.
And the longer it's in the room,
there's gonna be
a bigger problem.
Let's just go ahead
and chop it up.
- Hold on, now.
Wait a second.
- What?
You all caught in your feelings?
Let's just end it.
It's over.
- No, we can't do it like that.
- [Rashida] Why?
- Because that's cruel.
- I see she done made you soft.
And you never even
knew the truth.
- Know what truth?
- You know what I mean, Deandre.
- My name is Diedre.
- You don't even
know who you are.
Move out of my way.
- Listen!
We're in a quarantine
lockdown, aight.
We can't leave this house.
Stop eating all the food.
- Did you just knock
my sandwich down?
(dramatic music)
- Listen, we're gonna have to
figure out something tonight.
If we don't, then the whole
neighborhood's gonna know
about it.
- [Rashida] So.
We're just gonna dump
it across the street
and wait til after
it gets dark tonight.
- Listen, we don't really
have much of a choice
because if we don't
handle it tonight,
then we're not gonna
get another chance.
They're gonna be
flooding the streets
with the military soon.
- Okay.
So then we just do it tonight,
like I said.
(laughs)
Remember when we first met?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I remember.
- It was so beautiful.
- What?
- It was (laughs),
it was beautiful.
- Ay yo, didn't we
meet at a McDonalds?
- Yeah, but it wasn't like
you was one of those guys
pulling up on me at the club
with one of those fancy cars.
- What's so special
about Micky Ds?
- It's what you said,
how you made me feel.
(laughs)
I remember when
you said I was like
a special gift to the world.
Nobody's ever told me that.
And when you said it, I
know that you meant it.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you were special.
You are special.
You'll do great things.
- And all those
guys, they (laughs)
used to try to size me up.
You know, giving me gifts.
But that didn't work.
(laughs)
But what you said,
that meant a lot.
It really did.
- Wow.
Now where have you been?
- [Rashida] Huh?
What?
- Huh, what?
No, where have you been?
You see, now you're
acting like the Rashida
that I met that night
at that restaurant.
This is the Rashida that I know.
And I'm gonna be honest with
you, I walked into that place
not expecting to meet
someone so beautiful
that shined so bright,
that knocked me off my feet.
Where you been?
(Rashida laughs)
(mellow music)
(airplane engine)
- Hey.
- What?
What's wrong with you?
- [Rashida] It's a
bunch of planes outside.
You hear that?
- Planes?
What are you talking
about, planes?
You was all hard yesterday and
now you're scared of planes?
- Look, look,
there's a lot of 'em.
- Are you serious?
- Yes.
Go to the door.
(plane engines)
- Looks like phase
one just started.
- Oh, shoot.
- What?
- What are we gonna
do about the room?
- How did we sleep through
all this last night?
- You were playing
freaking lovebirds,
you got me all off my game.
- Lovebirds?
No, you had us drinking
that alcohol last night,
that's what had us out.
- Man, whatever.
- I told you this was real.
(knocking on the door)
(suspenseful music)
- Somebody knocking at the door.
- Let's go see.
- Shh!
- What do you mean, "shh?"
- Just be quiet and
then they'll leave.
- Yeah, somebody's
definitely at the door.
Let's go see.
- Shh.
Mmhmm.
- What's wrong with you?
- You know we got
it in the room,
why you gonna let somebody in?
- Look, they already know.
They already know.
- They know what?
- They know that we're in here.
We gotta answer it.
Why are you acting
so scared for?
You scared of planes
and a door knock--
- Shh!
You said the Coronavirus,
why we gonna let somebody in?
- Hold on.
(suspenseful music)
- Shh!
(knocking on door)
Can I help you?
- Yes, ma'am.
We're from the local
police department.
With the pandemic and
everything going on,
we're just coming around to
check to make sure you're okay.
- Okay.
We don't have time
for that right now.
Thank you.
- Whoa.
What are you doing?
- Can you move your foot?
- Excuse me, I don't mean
to give you a hard time,
but you're already coming
to the door with no mask on,
hands kinda ashy so I
can tell you ain't got
no hand sanitizer, and
I could've sworn I heard
a male voice when
you opened the door.
- What does that have
to do with the lockdown?
- [Officer] Well
I'm just curious.
I mean, why didn't
he come to the door.
Are y'all hiding something?
- No.
Why do we have to
hide something.
Just because my husband
didn't answer the door,
we gotta be hiding something?
- [Officer] So you and
your husband live here?
- Yes!
- And this is your house?
- [Rashida] Yes.
- And may I have your
name please, ma'am?
- [Rashida] Can you
move your foot please?
- May I have your
name please, ma'am.
- [Rashida] Elizabeth Robinson.
- So why does my paperwork
say Deandre and Paula James?
Excuse me, ma'am.
But I'm gonna have to
check the premises.
- Can you back up please?
- [Officer] Can you
please put on a mask
and get some hand sanitizer?
- Excuse me, sir.
Let me talk to my wife
for a minute, okay?
- You don't have a mask either.
- Do not let him in.
- What are we supposed to do?
We gotta do something.
- Why did you let him in here?
- If we didn't, we'd
look suspicious.
- Look at him going
through everything.
Why he in the refrigerator?
- Just chill out, man.
This is what they do.
- Excuse me, Officer.
- Y'all got something to drink?
- Why you got your
mouth on my juice?
- Listen, ma'am.
First of all, this
ain't even Fiji.
I don't even know what this is.
Number two, I'm just
here doing my job.
And I come in here, you
ain't got no mask on,
no hand sanitizer, and a
half a roll of toilet tissue.
I coulda been took you
in a long time ago,
but I ain't like that.
See, your problem is, you
worrying about the wrong thing.
What you need to
be worried about
is why that man sitting
on your leather couch
in nothing but his drawers.
- Why you taking my water?
- I tell you what,
you tell him to put some
pants on, go to the store,
and get you some water.
Oh, I forgot, it's a lockdown.
He can't.
(maniacal laugh)
(suspenseful music)
- Wasn't that weird?
- What?
- If he was supposed
to be coming here
to check us for Coronavirus,
he didn't check
our temperatures.
He was like, snooping
around the house.
- That's just how they do.
- Mm-mm.
Like, did you see
he even went by the
door where it is.
He kept looking at us like...
You think he know?
Somebody...
I don't know, nevermind.
- Either way, we have a problem.
What if this lockdown
is for weeks?
- Maybe we can chop it up.
Into little, small pieces.
- No.
No, we can't do it like that.
- That's the only way we
can get it out of here.
- Look, I said no.
- Maybe we can figure
out a way to burn it.
- Really?
So that's an option right now?
That is my dead
wife in that room.
(eerie music)
(Rashida laughs)
- Oh, okay.
Now I see.
It's not how, it's who.
- [Diedre] Don't do that.
- But you said you loved me.
- I do love you.
- No, it's to me, it feels
like you still love her.
- Ay yo, don't put
your hands on me.
Calm down.
Calm down.
- You liar!
- I'm not a liar.
- You lied to me.
- Listen, I did not
lie to you, all right?
- You're the only man that
told me that you loved me
and I believed you.
- I do love you, okay?
Just never stopped loving her.
- You still love her.
Stop playing with
my heart, Deandre.
I guess you didn't even
know she didn't love you.
- And how you know that?
(Rashida laughs)
- I know more than you think.
- You don't know nothing.
- Oh.
- If you do it,
then I'll snitch.
(mellow music)
- [Rashida] Tomorrow,
I'ma get whatever is in
here to chop your wife up
like a turkey.
(mellow music)
You said you was
gonna snitch on me.
- Whoa.
You don't want to do this, okay?
You wanna shoot me?
Me?
Baby, you love me.
I love you.
Drop the gun, okay?
Drop the gun.
Drop, drop it.
(mellow music)
(Rashida crying)
It's okay.
(mellow music)
It's okay.
- I love you.
And we gonna be
together forever.
- You know, when this
is all over with,
I want us to leave
the country together
and live our best lives.
- Yes.
(laughs)
(somber music)
- What was that
that you gave me?
- Something to help
me live my best life.
(laughs)
- I thought that you loved me.
- I do.
But I love me more.
Let me make this a
little easy for you.
(somber music)
- [Diedre] What you doing?
- Waiting for you to wake up.
- You were planning
to kill me, huh?
- If I wanted to kill you,
I woulda done that already.
Besides, I can't
kill my baby daddy.
- [Diedre] Your what?
- I can't kill my baby daddy.
- So,
what are you trying to say?
- My baby daddy gotta
be the dumbest man ever.
- You're pregnant?
- Yes.
- Why you lying for?
All that coke and alcohol?
So how I know it's mine?
- What?
The one thing I know
I never did to you
and that was cheat on you,
unlike your wife.
- [Diedre] And what is
that supposed to mean?
- Oh, gosh.
You so gullible.
(laughs)
Everybody knew that,
even I knew that.
That was a perfect
opportunity for her.
You know that?
When she found out
about me and you.
Why you think that she
came home early that day?
- No, you see, you're lying.
My wife loved me.
- Oh, oh.
- My wife, she loved me.
- So, is this you
in this video?
- [Diedre] Nah.
- [Rashida] I'm out.
- [Diedre] Don't kill the baby.
- [Rashida] Ugh!
* You told me we
would be together *
* It sounded like
it was forever *
* Your phrases make
me feel better *
* About our love
the stormy weather *
* You said I was the only one
* But you got me the only once
* I see I'm not the only one
* Who's feeling
like the only one *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make help me *
* Some say I'm clueless but
that's just not true I know *
* Just what I'm
doing I'm hooked on *
* Your beautiful lies
* You love me you need me
* I'm beautiful the only one
* And baby you're the only one
* Who makes me feel
* Like I am one of a kind
* When you tell me
those beautiful lies *
* You say baby I won't
hurt you no lie *
* Please trust me
* You always put
it on your life *
* And I may be too dumb
to call you on your lies *
* There's no one to wait
'cause I keep getting trust *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* On the stories you make
* Some say I'm foolish
but that's just not true *
* I know just what I'm
doing I'm hooked on your *
* Beautiful lies
* You love me you need me
* I'm beautiful the only one
* And baby you're the only one
* Who makes me feel
* Like I am one of a kind
* When you tell me
those beautiful lies *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* Some say I'm clueless but
that's just not true I know *
* Just what I'm
doing I'm hooked *
- You know, all the
work we've put in
to get this quarantine going
and people just driving around
like it doesn't even exist.
Oh, you look well for
losing all that blood.
Guess it didn't hit
any vital organs.
How you doing?
- I'm holding up.
- Good.
Listen, Tia, I got
a question to ask
and it's a serious question,
I need an honest answer.
- Anything, Chief?
- [Chief Williams] What
were you doing in the house
while the investigation was
going on and Marcus was there?
- I was trying to grab
something before it happened.
- Tia, I need an honest answer.
What was going on?
- What was going on?
You have my husband in
my house with some skank
doing who knows what,
claiming it's a part
of the investigation?
Was this a part of
your plans, Chief?
- Tia, you know everything
we do, we do for the A-Team.
- The A-Team.
I must not be a
part of the A-Team.
You got my husband pretending
to be in a relationship
with some woman.
Nobody asked me how
I felt about it.
She tried to kill me.
(suspenseful music)
- [Rashida] What?
What is it?
- They're checking houses.
Yeah, it says
they have 2500 troops
checking houses.
If you don't let them in,
they can force themselves
in by law.
Every house will now
require a full search.
Full search may be what
it takes to get control
of the Coronavirus.
Search begins now.
- So if they're beginning now
who was that guy that was here
earlier searching the house?
- I have no idea.
I just got this feeling that
somebody's on to us.
- How can they be on to us
if it was just you and I?
We didn't tell anyone, right?
We didn't tell anyone, right?
- Right.
Why would I tell on myself.
- Yeah.
We gotta go ahead
and chop her up.
- After all of this,
you still talking about
chopping her up?
- What else you have in mind?
- Nah.
Just...
Just give me a few
minutes with her.
- You got five minutes.
Five.
(ominous music)
Five minutes.
I said your time is up.
(ominous music)
It's time.
- I cannot do it.
- [Rashida] You have no choice.
(dramatic music)
- [Diedre] I can't.
- By tomorrow, the
body will be stinky.
- I can't.
- You have no choice.
Do it or die.
(dramatic music)
(knocking on door)
(knocking on door)
(Diedre muffled
talking through hand)
Shh.
(suspenseful music)
(Rashida exhales)
- At least she's alive.
- What?
What did you say?
- [Diedre] Nothing.
- Oh, so you think I
didn't hear what you said?
- Look, I'm glad that
she's alive, aight?
There, I said it.
So what?
- If she's alive, then that
means we go to prison, idiot.
- You know, maybe we
should just call the cops
and turn ourselves in.
- Man, I tell you.
Besides sex, you're useless.
- Let's call her phone.
If she answers, at
least we know something.
- Mm-mm.
I don't know about that.
No, mm-mm.
Okay.
We gonna call but we gonna
call from your phone.
- [Diedre] Okay, all right.
- Wait a minute.
Now you a little bit too
happy to make that call.
(Diedre sighs)
(phone ringing)
(suspenseful music)
(undistinguishable
chatter on phone)
- Babe?
- Don't say anything!
- What, why?
- Because we don't
even know anything.
Like, why would you do that?
I don't even--
oh my gosh.
(suspenseful music)
There's no way I can
get myself locked up.
I can't.
I can't do it.
I can't do prison time.
I would just be like
everybody else in my family.
(soft piano music)
We should just
make a run for it.
- Have you not been
paying attention
to the alerts on your phone?
14 people got shot and
killed for running.
- If they come back, it's
because she told 'em.
Either way, we screwed.
- Yeah.
They come back for
another check-up.
- We gotta clean that bedroom.
- I'm not going back in there.
I can't.
(Rashida sighs)
- [Rashida] What was that?
(Diedre sighs)
- The power went out.
Look like everything
except the street lights.
- What you think?
Are they coming
to get us?
- Yeah.
I think that it's over with.
I think that they're
coming to get us.
(tranquil music)
Quarantine's not
supposed to be like this.
- Neither are relationships.
- I think that we should
call our families.
- [Rashida] You
really don't know me.
I don't have a family.
- Like literally?
- I mean, I was adopted
and my family's in Maine
but I haven't talked to them
in like, 15 years.
- Well if you're not
gonna call anyone, then
I'm not gonna call
anyone either.
- No.
No, no, no, no.
If you got family and
you wanna call them,
go ahead and call them.
Don't do it because of me.
- I mean, I doubt
they'll care anyway.
They pretty much disowned
me after I married her.
- Wow.
She was trouble
at the start, huh?
(suspenseful music)
What you gonna do with that?
- I think we should
tell our story.
I mean, think about it.
My wife is gonna tell
her story, the police
are gonna tell theirs
and so is the media
so we owe it to ourselves
to tell ours, right?
- You got a point.
Give it here, I'll go first.
(suspenseful music)
Hi.
My name is Rashida Hamilton.
I was abandoned
by my teenage mom
but then I was adopted by a
rich, white family in Maine.
It was everyday
I was either
molested or raped by
a white man in my community.
I mean, I reached
out for help but
no one wanted to help
this little Black girl.
So I ran away.
And I ran away to Atlanta.
(laughs)
Here, they taught
me how to survive.
Even taught me that being a
Black girl was a cool thing.
Then I ran into
this amazing guy,
horrible name.
I don't know if his parents
was on crack or not, but,
(laughs)
he still was amazing.
He was so amazing that I...
I killed his...
I killed his wife.
Maggie Simmons.
That's how amazing he was to me.
Your turn.
(mellow music)
(Diedre sighs)
- How do I follow that?
- I mean, that was my story.
You tell yours.
- Yeah, but I think I need
some inspiration first.
- Only if you let me tie
you up one more time.
It is quarantine, right?
- Yeah.
- Let's have fun
in this quarantine
relationship.
(dramatic music)
- Sorry to interrupt.
- Get her.
She killed my wife.
- [Rashida] She?
We killed her.
What is this?
- Get her, I have the
evidence on my phone!
- Okay, we got this Marcus.
- [Rashida] Marcus?
(Marcus laughs)
- Oh yeah.
- [Rashida] Marcus!
- [Marcus] I said my name
is Diedre, but it's Marcus
and I'm an undercover cop.
- Hey, hey, hey!
(Marcus laughing)
- [Marcus] I'm an undercover
cop and so was my wife.
- I will blow your
frickin' head off.
- [Marcus] Good thing
she had that vest on.
- But I love you!
- You're under arrest.
- She don't love you!
- You have the right
to remain silent.
Anything you say
can and will be held against
you in a court of law.
You have the right
to an attorney.
- You're gonna pay!
- If you cannot
afford an attorney.
- [Rashida] Deandre!
Marcus!
- It's Diedre.
(Marcus sighs)
She's crazy.
- Boy, I tell you.
You.
- Man, why you didn't
get her the first time
you came through?
- Man, I didn't know
what was going on.
You here making all them faces,
sitting here in your drawers.
I was confused.
- Man, look.
I had to do something
with her one more time.
- Boy, stop it.
Bet you didn't even
have a mask, though.
I need to lock you up.
- No six feet.
(laughter)
But look, I gotta
give it to you, man.
You caught on quick
with them signs.
- Hey, man.
Stay ready ain't
gotta get ready.
I studied all night.
This Jeremy?
Boy, don't you owe me $40?
(laughter)
(tranquil music)
(traffic sounds)
- What's going on there, hero?
- Hey, what's up?
- Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Social distancing, remember?
Six feet apart.
- Yeah.
Yeah, my bad.
I forgot.
- I thought you went
on vacation yesterday.
- My wife thinks I did.
- Okay?
Well you didn't come
here to chit chat
so what's going on?
- The case.
There's something
I can't get past.
- [Chief Williams] You
fell in love with Rashida
for real this time.
- What?
No.
No, it's nothing like that.
- [Chief Williams] Okay,
then what is it then?
- Well Rashida,
she showed me this video
of my wife.
- Oh, yeah.
I saw that video.
You guys went all out
to make that look real.
- See, that's the thing, bruh.
That wasn't me in that video.
- Wait, what?
- Yeah, that video was real,
but that wasn't me in
the video with her.
- No.
No, your wife wouldn't
do that to you, man.
- Okay, well if it was
something for the case,
then why don't I know
anything about it?
- Wait, hold on.
Let me take this
phone call real quick.
Williams.
Wait, what?
When?
How much?
You've gotta be kidding me.
All right, I need a
man on that right away.
And you keep me informed
as to what information
you find out on that.
And while I got you,
hey, you know that video?
Yeah, that video.
Got any information on that?
Email address, anything?
Really?
Okay, well thanks a lot.
And remember, keep me
abreast of everything
that goes on with
that missing money.
Okay, so apparently,
this originated from an
A-Team Jeremy's email.
I mean, we're A-Team.
Do you know a Jeremy?
- A-Team?
- [Chief Williams] Mmhmm.
- Jeremy?
- [Chief Williams] Mmhmm.
- Yo, I gotta go.
(ominous music)
- Where you at?
Whatchu mean?
I'm at your house now,
ain't nobody here.
Psh, girl.
I done stole this money,
we gotta get out of town.
I ain't got time for you
to be playing around.
(suspenseful music)
Whatchu mean?
I'm at your house
now, I got the money.
Nobody's here.
Listen, girl.
I done stole this money,
it's only gonna be
a matter of time before
the whole police force
will be after us.
Marcus?
Nobody worried about Marcus.
Divorce him, do
whatever you gotta do.
He's not a factor.
Listen, listen.
Just meet me by the
lake in 30 minutes.
(suspenseful music)
Let me call you back.
Psh.
Marcus.
Boy, you gonna live a long time.
You know I was just
thinking about ya?
- Really?
(suspenseful music)
Whatchu doing here, man?
- Whatchu mean, man?
I came to see if you wanna
get a drink or something.
I gotta have a
reason to see my boy?
- Your boy?
- [Calvin] Yeah, boy.
- Oh, okay.
So I'm your boy now.
- What's all this about, Marcus?
- See, see, the thing is
I heard something different.
- Yo, I don't know what
you think you mighta heard,
mighta not heard,
but you got it all wrong, man.
This is A-Team.
- I got it wrong?
The A-Team?
Tell me what it is then, Calvin.
Tell me what it is.
Because what I think is
you been smashing my
wife behind my back.
Yeah, I seen the video.
Before you try to
lie, I seen the video.
- I just messed up, man.
I just messed up.
- If I was you,
I would be very
careful the next words
I let come out of my mouth.
- Blue lives matter,
Black lives matter,
we all matter, baby.
Let's just take a knee
and talk about this.
- Did my wife matter?
Did my life matter when
you smashed my wife?
(dramatic music)
- Not much fun when the
rabbit got the gun, huh?
(birds chirping)
(suspenseful music)
- Calvin.
- [Chief Williams]
What's going on, Chief?
- You tell me what's going on.
- This don't concern you.
Wherever you came from,
I advise you to go back.
- What do you mean it
doesn't concern me?
I just came from Marcus's house.
- I'm pretty sure he
done told you everything
you need to know.
- Calvin, we're cops.
We're better than this.
- No, you're better than this.
This is my way out.
If you don't turn around
and go the other way,
I promise the next suit you
wear gonna come with a hearse.
- You're a good man, a good cop.
I brought you onto the
A-Team for a reason.
- Yeah, you did bring
me on the A-Team.
But I made the A-Team.
I the one that took
them sacrifices
and what I got to show for it?
Not a pinch in the 10, 15 year.
My son 10 years old.
I can't wait on that.
- I'm giving you
one last chance.
Put the gun down,
hand me the bag.
(Calvin laughs)
- You know, that was
Marcus's mistake.
He thought I wouldn't
shoot him either.
(somber music)
(Chief Williams sighs)
- Was it worth it, Calvin?
(somber music)
Dispatch.
I lost him.
Meet me down at
Carolina Beach Road.
(suspenseful music)
Folks, it's been four months
since the lockdown started
and the city is starting
to get back together.
That's the good news.
But since then, we've
run into a few problems.
Several officers have been
killed and money is missing.
We have no clues, no leads.
(suspenseful music)
I just wanna say,
these are good people.
They had families.
You didn't have to shoot
'em down like animals.
(suspenseful music)
These officers...
These officers were
friends of mine.
They did not have to
be killed like this.
(suspenseful music)
I'm sorry.
This isn't--
I can't, we can't do this.
(suspenseful music)
(mellow R&B music)
* Insincere
* Don't interfere
* That's what you said
* Hold it in your heart
like some souvenir *
* And don't volunteer
* Said what I said
* The life I live
gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* See them come
you see them go *
* And you see what you
see going up going down *
* Like the cyclone
* Oh carousel we're
doing it all *
* On the cyclone
* Going my way carousel
we're doing it all *
* Let's be clear
* They don't care
* That's what I said
* Baby
* Life goes on
* So don't you fear
* It's all in your head
* Don't want the life I
live gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* See them come see them go
* See what you see
going up going down *
* Like a cyclone
* Oh you going my way
* A carousel doing it all
* On the cyclone
* Oh you're going
my way carousel *
* Doing it all
* Mmm
- So I am Keith Hamilton and
what I decided to do is
at the end of every movie,
I'm going to give
you some information
that helped me in my
life that I have learned.
Hopefully, it will help you.
So this time, what
I wanna speak with--
or the third time--
what I'm gonna speak
about is understanding
the difference between
being employed,
self-employment, and
running their business.
There's this big
entrepreneur spirit because
of the internet and the
information people have
and everybody wants to
become an entrepreneur now
and everybody wants to
make a bunch of money
and all these different
things and all those things
are actually great if
you're in the right space
when doing that.
The goal is not really
to make a bunch of money.
The goal is to have
personal freedom and thrive.
So,
just because you
become self-employed
does not mean you
have personal freedom
and does not mean
you will thrive.
A lot of people
thrive in employment,
working for someone.
A lot of people thrive
in running a business
and have personal
freedom in that.
So,
my whole point is, I hear a
lot of people complain about
hating their job and
hate working at their job
and yadda, yadda, yadda.
They're like, they
just hate being there.
But I think that's your
perspective that has messed
everything up.
Your job prepares
you for your success.
It prepares you to get
in a position to thrive,
it prepares you to get in a
position of personal freedom,
it prepares you to make
money and pass jewels
down to your family.
So instead of going to
your job, hating your job,
understanding that your
job is a training ground.
Self-employment is transition.
Business is when you are
thriving.
We could say that as thriving.
But you must understand
don't be such in a rush to
be self-employed and
start your business
if you haven't
conquered employment.
And what I'm saying is,
a lot of people want
to be self-employed, a lot of
people want to leave their job
but when you're employed,
they tell you what to do,
when to do it, how to do it,
and they guarantee you a check.
But when you're self-employed,
none of that stuff
is guaranteed.
You have to just
get up early enough,
work late enough, and you
just have to keep going
hoping the job is done.
When you're running
the business,
you're putting
the responsibility
onto somebody else.
So my point is, when you're
working for somebody,
if you can't...
If they're telling you
what to do and how to do it
and you can't be to
work on time everyday
and you can't work to a
high level and you know
what you are to be
doing, how are you going
to do that for yourself?
How are you gonna be
self-employed and do that
for your own business?
If you don't become
a great employer--
excuse me, a great employee--
how are you gonna be able
to hire great employees?
You don't know what that is.
And so, and I'm really
speaking to the people
that take their job for
granted and don't give 100%
for their job because
they know it's not
their last stop, they
know it's not their goal,
but it's a part of the
process and you have to master
each step to get to the top.
Once the game starts,
that's not when you learn,
that's not when you
start doing right,
that's when the habits
of everything you've done
in the past kick in.
I'm sorry if the
camera's shaking.
I don't have it
on a gimbal, but.
So it's very important
while you're at your job,
be the best employee you can be.
This is training ground
to run your business
and you're walking
for a business,
whether you think it's
a good business or bad,
there are always lessons
and rules to learn.
So while you're at your
job, you need to know
the company's profile, you
need to know the company's
customer profile,
you need to know why
y'all working eight hour
shifts and not 12 hour shifts.
You need to know why you
work Monday through Friday,
not seven days a week.
You need to know why
y'all take breaks,
15 minute breaks to
the 30 minute breaks.
A supervisor job comes up
and people are
applying for the job.
You should be able to guess
who is going to get the job
but you need to
understand the business
that you are working with.
'Cause this is practice for
running your own business.
This is not a place
to get your head down,
this is not a place
to try to get over,
this is not a place that
when you come there,
you come in just enough
time to still get paid,
you leave just early
enough to still get paid.
No, this is your practice.
This is your habits.
No matter what you do in life,
you are creating a habit.
So if you're not
trying to eat healthy,
every time you don't, you
are creating the habit
of not eating healthy.
Every time you try
to eat healthy,
guess what you are doing.
You are creating the
habit of eating healthy.
So every time you go to work
and you don't give it 100%,
you are creating a habit in
your life of not giving 100%.
If anybody has ever
played sports before,
one thing a coach will always
tell you during practice is to
practice full speed so
when you're in the game,
you don't have to try.
It's like muscle memory.
That just the habits,
that's what practice is for.
Game time is not a time
to learn, game time
is a time to execute.
So when you're at work
is the time to learn
so when you get your own
business, you can execute.
This is very, very
important and I just,
I feel like there a lot of
people that need to hear this
because they wanna start a
business and do different things
but they don't know how to
be great for a business.
They don't know how to
help a business grow.
I'ma end by saying this.
One of the biggest
things I have learned,
one of the biggest things is,
when I go to learn
something, I don't--
and let's say if I
work with somebody else
or helping them with their
project and, you know,
I wanna learn.
The best way to
learn, the best way
to create your habits
is to not go there
and do what most people
do that I have seen,
snoop around, look at equipment,
snoop around, they try to go
and copy what they're doing.
The habit you are trying to
get when you go help somebody
is making something great.
So when you go help somebody
else with their film,
when you go help somebody
else with their salon,
when you go help somebody
else with the barber shop,
you go help somebody else
with their computer business
or their delivery business,
your job is to help
that business be the best it
can be while you are there.
Because when you start
your own business,
that is the habit that
you are carrying over.
So,
you know, this ended up being
longer than I thought it was
but yeah, hey, hey.
Always give 100%.
That's the bottom line.
No matter what it is, how
it is, what you're doing,
just make sure it's
good, it's righteous,
and give 100% every time.
Be blessed.
I hope you enjoyed
the film and follow me
and Nakia T. Hamilton on
Facebook and Instagram.
N-A-K-I-A T. Hamilton
and check your boy out.
Peace.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
(tranquil music)
- Hello.
I'm Chief Williams
and I'm here to help the city
of Wilmington, North Carolina
with an initiative we're
calling Destroy 19.
And what this is is
that we are taking
our own responsibility for
stopping the COVID virus
in our community.
In order to do that, we're
going to have to take
some extreme measures.
You will not be able to leave
your home for any reason
while this is going on.
Emergency crews are
standing by to help you
with anything you could
possibly need during this time.
Also, we don't know how
long this is gonna last
so the county has
informed me that utilities
will run free of charge
until this is over.
And one last thing.
I implore you do
not ingest or inject
over the counter disinfectant
into your bodies.
(tranquil music)
(Diedre crying)
- And if you snitch,
I'll kill you.
(somber music)
(mellow hip hop music)
(birds chirping)
(ominous music)
(somber music)
- It's gonna be okay.
We got this.
- How are we supposed
to live like this?
- [Rashida] We already
got rid of the thing.
- Well none of this
is over until it
is gone and forgotten about.
- I could take care of that.
- You better.
This is all your fault.
- It may be all my fault,
but you're reaping
all the benefits.
(mellow R&B music)
* Insincere
* Don't interfere
* That's what you said
* Ooh
* Hold it in your heart
* Like some souvenir
* And don't volunteer
* Said what I said
* Don't want a life I
live gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* You see them come
you see them go *
* And you see what you
see going up going down *
* Like the cyclone
* Oh carousel
- Deandre.
- Diedre.
My name is Diedre.
- Deandre.
Grow some balls.
- [Diedre] Maybe you
should grow a heart.
(Rashida laughs)
- That's why I like you.
You're crazy just like me.
(laughs)
Oh, man.
Mmm.
I'm hungry.
Want something?
- No.
I don't.
- [Rashida] You don't
want nothing to eat?
- [Diedre] No.
(mellow hip hop music)
Elder Jeaves?
- [Elder Jeaves
On Phone] Who dis?
- [Diedre] It's me, Diedre.
- [Elder Jeaves On Phone]
How can I help you?
- I have a situation
I need help with.
I really can't explain
over the phone.
(mellow hip hop music)
- Deandre?
Your food getting cold.
- [Elder Jeaves] Well how to
you expect me to help you?
- Look, I don't know but
I'm in serious trouble.
- [Elder Jeaves] I can't help.
Members of the church
won't send elders.
- Idiot, this is life or death.
- [Elder Jeaves] Hold on.
Is this Jeremy?
Boy, you can't fool me.
I know that voice anywhere.
- Yeah, yeah, it's me, Jeremy.
Can you help me?
- [Elder Jeaves] Help?
You owe me $40.
I need my money.
You told me you'd pay
me over a month ago.
Is that why you
ain't been to church?
(mellow hip hop music)
- I'm gonna have to eat your
food if you took any longer.
- [Diedre] How did I get here?
- Hmm?
Love.
- Love.
- L-O-V-E, love me.
L-O-V-E, love me.
- Not right now, aight?
- What?
It's always now.
Like--
- Yo stop.
- What's wrong with you?
- I need to be
calling my pastor.
(Rashida laughs)
- Huh, say that again, now.
- What's so funny?
I need to call my pastor.
He's my friend.
(Rashida laughs)
- Wait a minute.
So,
you go to church and
he's your friend,
nobody calls you
for this whole time.
'Cause I'm just trying
to figure out something.
That's your people
in the church, right?
But the only person
I've seen here is me.
So who did God send?
Me or them?
- Rashida, stop playing, aight?
- Me or them?
- Rashida, stop.
- Who did he send?
Me or them?
- Look, you, aight?
You.
- Oh.
(laughs)
I thought so.
- Look, we can't
go nowhere, aight?
- What do you mean
I can't go nowhere?
- We're on a statewide
lockdown due to Corona.
- I don't care about that.
- Have you not been
paying attention?
We were on phase one,
we're on phase two now,
soon to be three, four.
They're not playing
around with this.
- Wow.
Yo, if that's the case,
then what we gonna do with it?
- You almost shot him.
- Yeah, I'm out here patrolling,
making sure that
everybody's adhering
to this quarantine order.
They act like we
didn't even have
a quarantine order in effect.
Making sure they're
wearing masks
like you're supposed to.
Yeah, I hear you.
I hear you.
But we're not just gonna
rush in there and arrest her
until we get concrete evidence?
(chatter on police radio)
It's too risky.
While the quarantine
is going on,
they can fix these roads,
this is ridiculous.
(chatter on police radio)
Look, we've been after this
family for a long, long time.
Marcus is in there right now,
in the house with Rashida
to get the evidence
that we need.
- [Officer On Radio]
Well this is what
I think we need to do.
We need to go ahead
and get the SWAT team--
- Look, when Marcus
gets the evidence,
we can send Rashida--
why am I even telling you this?
I'm the police chief,
you do what I say.
You follow my rules or you
find yourself a new job.
Fix these roads while this
quarantine is going on.
I need to find a new job.
Not like this one.
(dramatic music)
- [Tia] Somebody help me.
Help me please.
Help me.
She shot me.
- Who shot you?
- [Tia] She shot me.
Rashida.
She shot me.
- I need help.
Officer down.
It's Tia, Marcus's wife.
(mellow music)
- You know,
as long as it is in the room,
we gonna have a problem.
And the longer it's in the room,
there's gonna be
a bigger problem.
Let's just go ahead
and chop it up.
- Hold on, now.
Wait a second.
- What?
You all caught in your feelings?
Let's just end it.
It's over.
- No, we can't do it like that.
- [Rashida] Why?
- Because that's cruel.
- I see she done made you soft.
And you never even
knew the truth.
- Know what truth?
- You know what I mean, Deandre.
- My name is Diedre.
- You don't even
know who you are.
Move out of my way.
- Listen!
We're in a quarantine
lockdown, aight.
We can't leave this house.
Stop eating all the food.
- Did you just knock
my sandwich down?
(dramatic music)
- Listen, we're gonna have to
figure out something tonight.
If we don't, then the whole
neighborhood's gonna know
about it.
- [Rashida] So.
We're just gonna dump
it across the street
and wait til after
it gets dark tonight.
- Listen, we don't really
have much of a choice
because if we don't
handle it tonight,
then we're not gonna
get another chance.
They're gonna be
flooding the streets
with the military soon.
- Okay.
So then we just do it tonight,
like I said.
(laughs)
Remember when we first met?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I remember.
- It was so beautiful.
- What?
- It was (laughs),
it was beautiful.
- Ay yo, didn't we
meet at a McDonalds?
- Yeah, but it wasn't like
you was one of those guys
pulling up on me at the club
with one of those fancy cars.
- What's so special
about Micky Ds?
- It's what you said,
how you made me feel.
(laughs)
I remember when
you said I was like
a special gift to the world.
Nobody's ever told me that.
And when you said it, I
know that you meant it.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you were special.
You are special.
You'll do great things.
- And all those
guys, they (laughs)
used to try to size me up.
You know, giving me gifts.
But that didn't work.
(laughs)
But what you said,
that meant a lot.
It really did.
- Wow.
Now where have you been?
- [Rashida] Huh?
What?
- Huh, what?
No, where have you been?
You see, now you're
acting like the Rashida
that I met that night
at that restaurant.
This is the Rashida that I know.
And I'm gonna be honest with
you, I walked into that place
not expecting to meet
someone so beautiful
that shined so bright,
that knocked me off my feet.
Where you been?
(Rashida laughs)
(mellow music)
(airplane engine)
- Hey.
- What?
What's wrong with you?
- [Rashida] It's a
bunch of planes outside.
You hear that?
- Planes?
What are you talking
about, planes?
You was all hard yesterday and
now you're scared of planes?
- Look, look,
there's a lot of 'em.
- Are you serious?
- Yes.
Go to the door.
(plane engines)
- Looks like phase
one just started.
- Oh, shoot.
- What?
- What are we gonna
do about the room?
- How did we sleep through
all this last night?
- You were playing
freaking lovebirds,
you got me all off my game.
- Lovebirds?
No, you had us drinking
that alcohol last night,
that's what had us out.
- Man, whatever.
- I told you this was real.
(knocking on the door)
(suspenseful music)
- Somebody knocking at the door.
- Let's go see.
- Shh!
- What do you mean, "shh?"
- Just be quiet and
then they'll leave.
- Yeah, somebody's
definitely at the door.
Let's go see.
- Shh.
Mmhmm.
- What's wrong with you?
- You know we got
it in the room,
why you gonna let somebody in?
- Look, they already know.
They already know.
- They know what?
- They know that we're in here.
We gotta answer it.
Why are you acting
so scared for?
You scared of planes
and a door knock--
- Shh!
You said the Coronavirus,
why we gonna let somebody in?
- Hold on.
(suspenseful music)
- Shh!
(knocking on door)
Can I help you?
- Yes, ma'am.
We're from the local
police department.
With the pandemic and
everything going on,
we're just coming around to
check to make sure you're okay.
- Okay.
We don't have time
for that right now.
Thank you.
- Whoa.
What are you doing?
- Can you move your foot?
- Excuse me, I don't mean
to give you a hard time,
but you're already coming
to the door with no mask on,
hands kinda ashy so I
can tell you ain't got
no hand sanitizer, and
I could've sworn I heard
a male voice when
you opened the door.
- What does that have
to do with the lockdown?
- [Officer] Well
I'm just curious.
I mean, why didn't
he come to the door.
Are y'all hiding something?
- No.
Why do we have to
hide something.
Just because my husband
didn't answer the door,
we gotta be hiding something?
- [Officer] So you and
your husband live here?
- Yes!
- And this is your house?
- [Rashida] Yes.
- And may I have your
name please, ma'am?
- [Rashida] Can you
move your foot please?
- May I have your
name please, ma'am.
- [Rashida] Elizabeth Robinson.
- So why does my paperwork
say Deandre and Paula James?
Excuse me, ma'am.
But I'm gonna have to
check the premises.
- Can you back up please?
- [Officer] Can you
please put on a mask
and get some hand sanitizer?
- Excuse me, sir.
Let me talk to my wife
for a minute, okay?
- You don't have a mask either.
- Do not let him in.
- What are we supposed to do?
We gotta do something.
- Why did you let him in here?
- If we didn't, we'd
look suspicious.
- Look at him going
through everything.
Why he in the refrigerator?
- Just chill out, man.
This is what they do.
- Excuse me, Officer.
- Y'all got something to drink?
- Why you got your
mouth on my juice?
- Listen, ma'am.
First of all, this
ain't even Fiji.
I don't even know what this is.
Number two, I'm just
here doing my job.
And I come in here, you
ain't got no mask on,
no hand sanitizer, and a
half a roll of toilet tissue.
I coulda been took you
in a long time ago,
but I ain't like that.
See, your problem is, you
worrying about the wrong thing.
What you need to
be worried about
is why that man sitting
on your leather couch
in nothing but his drawers.
- Why you taking my water?
- I tell you what,
you tell him to put some
pants on, go to the store,
and get you some water.
Oh, I forgot, it's a lockdown.
He can't.
(maniacal laugh)
(suspenseful music)
- Wasn't that weird?
- What?
- If he was supposed
to be coming here
to check us for Coronavirus,
he didn't check
our temperatures.
He was like, snooping
around the house.
- That's just how they do.
- Mm-mm.
Like, did you see
he even went by the
door where it is.
He kept looking at us like...
You think he know?
Somebody...
I don't know, nevermind.
- Either way, we have a problem.
What if this lockdown
is for weeks?
- Maybe we can chop it up.
Into little, small pieces.
- No.
No, we can't do it like that.
- That's the only way we
can get it out of here.
- Look, I said no.
- Maybe we can figure
out a way to burn it.
- Really?
So that's an option right now?
That is my dead
wife in that room.
(eerie music)
(Rashida laughs)
- Oh, okay.
Now I see.
It's not how, it's who.
- [Diedre] Don't do that.
- But you said you loved me.
- I do love you.
- No, it's to me, it feels
like you still love her.
- Ay yo, don't put
your hands on me.
Calm down.
Calm down.
- You liar!
- I'm not a liar.
- You lied to me.
- Listen, I did not
lie to you, all right?
- You're the only man that
told me that you loved me
and I believed you.
- I do love you, okay?
Just never stopped loving her.
- You still love her.
Stop playing with
my heart, Deandre.
I guess you didn't even
know she didn't love you.
- And how you know that?
(Rashida laughs)
- I know more than you think.
- You don't know nothing.
- Oh.
- If you do it,
then I'll snitch.
(mellow music)
- [Rashida] Tomorrow,
I'ma get whatever is in
here to chop your wife up
like a turkey.
(mellow music)
You said you was
gonna snitch on me.
- Whoa.
You don't want to do this, okay?
You wanna shoot me?
Me?
Baby, you love me.
I love you.
Drop the gun, okay?
Drop the gun.
Drop, drop it.
(mellow music)
(Rashida crying)
It's okay.
(mellow music)
It's okay.
- I love you.
And we gonna be
together forever.
- You know, when this
is all over with,
I want us to leave
the country together
and live our best lives.
- Yes.
(laughs)
(somber music)
- What was that
that you gave me?
- Something to help
me live my best life.
(laughs)
- I thought that you loved me.
- I do.
But I love me more.
Let me make this a
little easy for you.
(somber music)
- [Diedre] What you doing?
- Waiting for you to wake up.
- You were planning
to kill me, huh?
- If I wanted to kill you,
I woulda done that already.
Besides, I can't
kill my baby daddy.
- [Diedre] Your what?
- I can't kill my baby daddy.
- So,
what are you trying to say?
- My baby daddy gotta
be the dumbest man ever.
- You're pregnant?
- Yes.
- Why you lying for?
All that coke and alcohol?
So how I know it's mine?
- What?
The one thing I know
I never did to you
and that was cheat on you,
unlike your wife.
- [Diedre] And what is
that supposed to mean?
- Oh, gosh.
You so gullible.
(laughs)
Everybody knew that,
even I knew that.
That was a perfect
opportunity for her.
You know that?
When she found out
about me and you.
Why you think that she
came home early that day?
- No, you see, you're lying.
My wife loved me.
- Oh, oh.
- My wife, she loved me.
- So, is this you
in this video?
- [Diedre] Nah.
- [Rashida] I'm out.
- [Diedre] Don't kill the baby.
- [Rashida] Ugh!
* You told me we
would be together *
* It sounded like
it was forever *
* Your phrases make
me feel better *
* About our love
the stormy weather *
* You said I was the only one
* But you got me the only once
* I see I'm not the only one
* Who's feeling
like the only one *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make help me *
* Some say I'm clueless but
that's just not true I know *
* Just what I'm
doing I'm hooked on *
* Your beautiful lies
* You love me you need me
* I'm beautiful the only one
* And baby you're the only one
* Who makes me feel
* Like I am one of a kind
* When you tell me
those beautiful lies *
* You say baby I won't
hurt you no lie *
* Please trust me
* You always put
it on your life *
* And I may be too dumb
to call you on your lies *
* There's no one to wait
'cause I keep getting trust *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* On the stories you make
* Some say I'm foolish
but that's just not true *
* I know just what I'm
doing I'm hooked on your *
* Beautiful lies
* You love me you need me
* I'm beautiful the only one
* And baby you're the only one
* Who makes me feel
* Like I am one of a kind
* When you tell me
those beautiful lies *
* Some call it stupid
some say I'm an addict *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* I'm hooked on the
stories you make *
* Some say I'm clueless but
that's just not true I know *
* Just what I'm
doing I'm hooked *
- You know, all the
work we've put in
to get this quarantine going
and people just driving around
like it doesn't even exist.
Oh, you look well for
losing all that blood.
Guess it didn't hit
any vital organs.
How you doing?
- I'm holding up.
- Good.
Listen, Tia, I got
a question to ask
and it's a serious question,
I need an honest answer.
- Anything, Chief?
- [Chief Williams] What
were you doing in the house
while the investigation was
going on and Marcus was there?
- I was trying to grab
something before it happened.
- Tia, I need an honest answer.
What was going on?
- What was going on?
You have my husband in
my house with some skank
doing who knows what,
claiming it's a part
of the investigation?
Was this a part of
your plans, Chief?
- Tia, you know everything
we do, we do for the A-Team.
- The A-Team.
I must not be a
part of the A-Team.
You got my husband pretending
to be in a relationship
with some woman.
Nobody asked me how
I felt about it.
She tried to kill me.
(suspenseful music)
- [Rashida] What?
What is it?
- They're checking houses.
Yeah, it says
they have 2500 troops
checking houses.
If you don't let them in,
they can force themselves
in by law.
Every house will now
require a full search.
Full search may be what
it takes to get control
of the Coronavirus.
Search begins now.
- So if they're beginning now
who was that guy that was here
earlier searching the house?
- I have no idea.
I just got this feeling that
somebody's on to us.
- How can they be on to us
if it was just you and I?
We didn't tell anyone, right?
We didn't tell anyone, right?
- Right.
Why would I tell on myself.
- Yeah.
We gotta go ahead
and chop her up.
- After all of this,
you still talking about
chopping her up?
- What else you have in mind?
- Nah.
Just...
Just give me a few
minutes with her.
- You got five minutes.
Five.
(ominous music)
Five minutes.
I said your time is up.
(ominous music)
It's time.
- I cannot do it.
- [Rashida] You have no choice.
(dramatic music)
- [Diedre] I can't.
- By tomorrow, the
body will be stinky.
- I can't.
- You have no choice.
Do it or die.
(dramatic music)
(knocking on door)
(knocking on door)
(Diedre muffled
talking through hand)
Shh.
(suspenseful music)
(Rashida exhales)
- At least she's alive.
- What?
What did you say?
- [Diedre] Nothing.
- Oh, so you think I
didn't hear what you said?
- Look, I'm glad that
she's alive, aight?
There, I said it.
So what?
- If she's alive, then that
means we go to prison, idiot.
- You know, maybe we
should just call the cops
and turn ourselves in.
- Man, I tell you.
Besides sex, you're useless.
- Let's call her phone.
If she answers, at
least we know something.
- Mm-mm.
I don't know about that.
No, mm-mm.
Okay.
We gonna call but we gonna
call from your phone.
- [Diedre] Okay, all right.
- Wait a minute.
Now you a little bit too
happy to make that call.
(Diedre sighs)
(phone ringing)
(suspenseful music)
(undistinguishable
chatter on phone)
- Babe?
- Don't say anything!
- What, why?
- Because we don't
even know anything.
Like, why would you do that?
I don't even--
oh my gosh.
(suspenseful music)
There's no way I can
get myself locked up.
I can't.
I can't do it.
I can't do prison time.
I would just be like
everybody else in my family.
(soft piano music)
We should just
make a run for it.
- Have you not been
paying attention
to the alerts on your phone?
14 people got shot and
killed for running.
- If they come back, it's
because she told 'em.
Either way, we screwed.
- Yeah.
They come back for
another check-up.
- We gotta clean that bedroom.
- I'm not going back in there.
I can't.
(Rashida sighs)
- [Rashida] What was that?
(Diedre sighs)
- The power went out.
Look like everything
except the street lights.
- What you think?
Are they coming
to get us?
- Yeah.
I think that it's over with.
I think that they're
coming to get us.
(tranquil music)
Quarantine's not
supposed to be like this.
- Neither are relationships.
- I think that we should
call our families.
- [Rashida] You
really don't know me.
I don't have a family.
- Like literally?
- I mean, I was adopted
and my family's in Maine
but I haven't talked to them
in like, 15 years.
- Well if you're not
gonna call anyone, then
I'm not gonna call
anyone either.
- No.
No, no, no, no.
If you got family and
you wanna call them,
go ahead and call them.
Don't do it because of me.
- I mean, I doubt
they'll care anyway.
They pretty much disowned
me after I married her.
- Wow.
She was trouble
at the start, huh?
(suspenseful music)
What you gonna do with that?
- I think we should
tell our story.
I mean, think about it.
My wife is gonna tell
her story, the police
are gonna tell theirs
and so is the media
so we owe it to ourselves
to tell ours, right?
- You got a point.
Give it here, I'll go first.
(suspenseful music)
Hi.
My name is Rashida Hamilton.
I was abandoned
by my teenage mom
but then I was adopted by a
rich, white family in Maine.
It was everyday
I was either
molested or raped by
a white man in my community.
I mean, I reached
out for help but
no one wanted to help
this little Black girl.
So I ran away.
And I ran away to Atlanta.
(laughs)
Here, they taught
me how to survive.
Even taught me that being a
Black girl was a cool thing.
Then I ran into
this amazing guy,
horrible name.
I don't know if his parents
was on crack or not, but,
(laughs)
he still was amazing.
He was so amazing that I...
I killed his...
I killed his wife.
Maggie Simmons.
That's how amazing he was to me.
Your turn.
(mellow music)
(Diedre sighs)
- How do I follow that?
- I mean, that was my story.
You tell yours.
- Yeah, but I think I need
some inspiration first.
- Only if you let me tie
you up one more time.
It is quarantine, right?
- Yeah.
- Let's have fun
in this quarantine
relationship.
(dramatic music)
- Sorry to interrupt.
- Get her.
She killed my wife.
- [Rashida] She?
We killed her.
What is this?
- Get her, I have the
evidence on my phone!
- Okay, we got this Marcus.
- [Rashida] Marcus?
(Marcus laughs)
- Oh yeah.
- [Rashida] Marcus!
- [Marcus] I said my name
is Diedre, but it's Marcus
and I'm an undercover cop.
- Hey, hey, hey!
(Marcus laughing)
- [Marcus] I'm an undercover
cop and so was my wife.
- I will blow your
frickin' head off.
- [Marcus] Good thing
she had that vest on.
- But I love you!
- You're under arrest.
- She don't love you!
- You have the right
to remain silent.
Anything you say
can and will be held against
you in a court of law.
You have the right
to an attorney.
- You're gonna pay!
- If you cannot
afford an attorney.
- [Rashida] Deandre!
Marcus!
- It's Diedre.
(Marcus sighs)
She's crazy.
- Boy, I tell you.
You.
- Man, why you didn't
get her the first time
you came through?
- Man, I didn't know
what was going on.
You here making all them faces,
sitting here in your drawers.
I was confused.
- Man, look.
I had to do something
with her one more time.
- Boy, stop it.
Bet you didn't even
have a mask, though.
I need to lock you up.
- No six feet.
(laughter)
But look, I gotta
give it to you, man.
You caught on quick
with them signs.
- Hey, man.
Stay ready ain't
gotta get ready.
I studied all night.
This Jeremy?
Boy, don't you owe me $40?
(laughter)
(tranquil music)
(traffic sounds)
- What's going on there, hero?
- Hey, what's up?
- Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Social distancing, remember?
Six feet apart.
- Yeah.
Yeah, my bad.
I forgot.
- I thought you went
on vacation yesterday.
- My wife thinks I did.
- Okay?
Well you didn't come
here to chit chat
so what's going on?
- The case.
There's something
I can't get past.
- [Chief Williams] You
fell in love with Rashida
for real this time.
- What?
No.
No, it's nothing like that.
- [Chief Williams] Okay,
then what is it then?
- Well Rashida,
she showed me this video
of my wife.
- Oh, yeah.
I saw that video.
You guys went all out
to make that look real.
- See, that's the thing, bruh.
That wasn't me in that video.
- Wait, what?
- Yeah, that video was real,
but that wasn't me in
the video with her.
- No.
No, your wife wouldn't
do that to you, man.
- Okay, well if it was
something for the case,
then why don't I know
anything about it?
- Wait, hold on.
Let me take this
phone call real quick.
Williams.
Wait, what?
When?
How much?
You've gotta be kidding me.
All right, I need a
man on that right away.
And you keep me informed
as to what information
you find out on that.
And while I got you,
hey, you know that video?
Yeah, that video.
Got any information on that?
Email address, anything?
Really?
Okay, well thanks a lot.
And remember, keep me
abreast of everything
that goes on with
that missing money.
Okay, so apparently,
this originated from an
A-Team Jeremy's email.
I mean, we're A-Team.
Do you know a Jeremy?
- A-Team?
- [Chief Williams] Mmhmm.
- Jeremy?
- [Chief Williams] Mmhmm.
- Yo, I gotta go.
(ominous music)
- Where you at?
Whatchu mean?
I'm at your house now,
ain't nobody here.
Psh, girl.
I done stole this money,
we gotta get out of town.
I ain't got time for you
to be playing around.
(suspenseful music)
Whatchu mean?
I'm at your house
now, I got the money.
Nobody's here.
Listen, girl.
I done stole this money,
it's only gonna be
a matter of time before
the whole police force
will be after us.
Marcus?
Nobody worried about Marcus.
Divorce him, do
whatever you gotta do.
He's not a factor.
Listen, listen.
Just meet me by the
lake in 30 minutes.
(suspenseful music)
Let me call you back.
Psh.
Marcus.
Boy, you gonna live a long time.
You know I was just
thinking about ya?
- Really?
(suspenseful music)
Whatchu doing here, man?
- Whatchu mean, man?
I came to see if you wanna
get a drink or something.
I gotta have a
reason to see my boy?
- Your boy?
- [Calvin] Yeah, boy.
- Oh, okay.
So I'm your boy now.
- What's all this about, Marcus?
- See, see, the thing is
I heard something different.
- Yo, I don't know what
you think you mighta heard,
mighta not heard,
but you got it all wrong, man.
This is A-Team.
- I got it wrong?
The A-Team?
Tell me what it is then, Calvin.
Tell me what it is.
Because what I think is
you been smashing my
wife behind my back.
Yeah, I seen the video.
Before you try to
lie, I seen the video.
- I just messed up, man.
I just messed up.
- If I was you,
I would be very
careful the next words
I let come out of my mouth.
- Blue lives matter,
Black lives matter,
we all matter, baby.
Let's just take a knee
and talk about this.
- Did my wife matter?
Did my life matter when
you smashed my wife?
(dramatic music)
- Not much fun when the
rabbit got the gun, huh?
(birds chirping)
(suspenseful music)
- Calvin.
- [Chief Williams]
What's going on, Chief?
- You tell me what's going on.
- This don't concern you.
Wherever you came from,
I advise you to go back.
- What do you mean it
doesn't concern me?
I just came from Marcus's house.
- I'm pretty sure he
done told you everything
you need to know.
- Calvin, we're cops.
We're better than this.
- No, you're better than this.
This is my way out.
If you don't turn around
and go the other way,
I promise the next suit you
wear gonna come with a hearse.
- You're a good man, a good cop.
I brought you onto the
A-Team for a reason.
- Yeah, you did bring
me on the A-Team.
But I made the A-Team.
I the one that took
them sacrifices
and what I got to show for it?
Not a pinch in the 10, 15 year.
My son 10 years old.
I can't wait on that.
- I'm giving you
one last chance.
Put the gun down,
hand me the bag.
(Calvin laughs)
- You know, that was
Marcus's mistake.
He thought I wouldn't
shoot him either.
(somber music)
(Chief Williams sighs)
- Was it worth it, Calvin?
(somber music)
Dispatch.
I lost him.
Meet me down at
Carolina Beach Road.
(suspenseful music)
Folks, it's been four months
since the lockdown started
and the city is starting
to get back together.
That's the good news.
But since then, we've
run into a few problems.
Several officers have been
killed and money is missing.
We have no clues, no leads.
(suspenseful music)
I just wanna say,
these are good people.
They had families.
You didn't have to shoot
'em down like animals.
(suspenseful music)
These officers...
These officers were
friends of mine.
They did not have to
be killed like this.
(suspenseful music)
I'm sorry.
This isn't--
I can't, we can't do this.
(suspenseful music)
(mellow R&B music)
* Insincere
* Don't interfere
* That's what you said
* Hold it in your heart
like some souvenir *
* And don't volunteer
* Said what I said
* The life I live
gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* See them come
you see them go *
* And you see what you
see going up going down *
* Like the cyclone
* Oh carousel we're
doing it all *
* On the cyclone
* Going my way carousel
we're doing it all *
* Let's be clear
* They don't care
* That's what I said
* Baby
* Life goes on
* So don't you fear
* It's all in your head
* Don't want the life I
live gotta do it my way *
* Like Sonatra
* What else you'd expect
from a girl like her *
* We walked a long road
* See them come see them go
* See what you see
going up going down *
* Like a cyclone
* Oh you going my way
* A carousel doing it all
* On the cyclone
* Oh you're going
my way carousel *
* Doing it all
* Mmm
- So I am Keith Hamilton and
what I decided to do is
at the end of every movie,
I'm going to give
you some information
that helped me in my
life that I have learned.
Hopefully, it will help you.
So this time, what
I wanna speak with--
or the third time--
what I'm gonna speak
about is understanding
the difference between
being employed,
self-employment, and
running their business.
There's this big
entrepreneur spirit because
of the internet and the
information people have
and everybody wants to
become an entrepreneur now
and everybody wants to
make a bunch of money
and all these different
things and all those things
are actually great if
you're in the right space
when doing that.
The goal is not really
to make a bunch of money.
The goal is to have
personal freedom and thrive.
So,
just because you
become self-employed
does not mean you
have personal freedom
and does not mean
you will thrive.
A lot of people
thrive in employment,
working for someone.
A lot of people thrive
in running a business
and have personal
freedom in that.
So,
my whole point is, I hear a
lot of people complain about
hating their job and
hate working at their job
and yadda, yadda, yadda.
They're like, they
just hate being there.
But I think that's your
perspective that has messed
everything up.
Your job prepares
you for your success.
It prepares you to get
in a position to thrive,
it prepares you to get in a
position of personal freedom,
it prepares you to make
money and pass jewels
down to your family.
So instead of going to
your job, hating your job,
understanding that your
job is a training ground.
Self-employment is transition.
Business is when you are
thriving.
We could say that as thriving.
But you must understand
don't be such in a rush to
be self-employed and
start your business
if you haven't
conquered employment.
And what I'm saying is,
a lot of people want
to be self-employed, a lot of
people want to leave their job
but when you're employed,
they tell you what to do,
when to do it, how to do it,
and they guarantee you a check.
But when you're self-employed,
none of that stuff
is guaranteed.
You have to just
get up early enough,
work late enough, and you
just have to keep going
hoping the job is done.
When you're running
the business,
you're putting
the responsibility
onto somebody else.
So my point is, when you're
working for somebody,
if you can't...
If they're telling you
what to do and how to do it
and you can't be to
work on time everyday
and you can't work to a
high level and you know
what you are to be
doing, how are you going
to do that for yourself?
How are you gonna be
self-employed and do that
for your own business?
If you don't become
a great employer--
excuse me, a great employee--
how are you gonna be able
to hire great employees?
You don't know what that is.
And so, and I'm really
speaking to the people
that take their job for
granted and don't give 100%
for their job because
they know it's not
their last stop, they
know it's not their goal,
but it's a part of the
process and you have to master
each step to get to the top.
Once the game starts,
that's not when you learn,
that's not when you
start doing right,
that's when the habits
of everything you've done
in the past kick in.
I'm sorry if the
camera's shaking.
I don't have it
on a gimbal, but.
So it's very important
while you're at your job,
be the best employee you can be.
This is training ground
to run your business
and you're walking
for a business,
whether you think it's
a good business or bad,
there are always lessons
and rules to learn.
So while you're at your
job, you need to know
the company's profile, you
need to know the company's
customer profile,
you need to know why
y'all working eight hour
shifts and not 12 hour shifts.
You need to know why you
work Monday through Friday,
not seven days a week.
You need to know why
y'all take breaks,
15 minute breaks to
the 30 minute breaks.
A supervisor job comes up
and people are
applying for the job.
You should be able to guess
who is going to get the job
but you need to
understand the business
that you are working with.
'Cause this is practice for
running your own business.
This is not a place
to get your head down,
this is not a place
to try to get over,
this is not a place that
when you come there,
you come in just enough
time to still get paid,
you leave just early
enough to still get paid.
No, this is your practice.
This is your habits.
No matter what you do in life,
you are creating a habit.
So if you're not
trying to eat healthy,
every time you don't, you
are creating the habit
of not eating healthy.
Every time you try
to eat healthy,
guess what you are doing.
You are creating the
habit of eating healthy.
So every time you go to work
and you don't give it 100%,
you are creating a habit in
your life of not giving 100%.
If anybody has ever
played sports before,
one thing a coach will always
tell you during practice is to
practice full speed so
when you're in the game,
you don't have to try.
It's like muscle memory.
That just the habits,
that's what practice is for.
Game time is not a time
to learn, game time
is a time to execute.
So when you're at work
is the time to learn
so when you get your own
business, you can execute.
This is very, very
important and I just,
I feel like there a lot of
people that need to hear this
because they wanna start a
business and do different things
but they don't know how to
be great for a business.
They don't know how to
help a business grow.
I'ma end by saying this.
One of the biggest
things I have learned,
one of the biggest things is,
when I go to learn
something, I don't--
and let's say if I
work with somebody else
or helping them with their
project and, you know,
I wanna learn.
The best way to
learn, the best way
to create your habits
is to not go there
and do what most people
do that I have seen,
snoop around, look at equipment,
snoop around, they try to go
and copy what they're doing.
The habit you are trying to
get when you go help somebody
is making something great.
So when you go help somebody
else with their film,
when you go help somebody
else with their salon,
when you go help somebody
else with the barber shop,
you go help somebody else
with their computer business
or their delivery business,
your job is to help
that business be the best it
can be while you are there.
Because when you start
your own business,
that is the habit that
you are carrying over.
So,
you know, this ended up being
longer than I thought it was
but yeah, hey, hey.
Always give 100%.
That's the bottom line.
No matter what it is, how
it is, what you're doing,
just make sure it's
good, it's righteous,
and give 100% every time.
Be blessed.
I hope you enjoyed
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